Steve Roach, Brian Parnham

A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach draws on the beauty and power of the Earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes. Throughout his decades-long career, he explored styles ranging from tribal rhythms to deep space music, and he's proven to be an enormous influence on several generations of ambient artists, trance producers, and new age/world music fusionists. First emerging with the Berlin School-styled Now in 1982, he came into his own with the 1984 minimalist epic Structures from Silence, often...